So a quick note on the trip to AZ., at the end of June, other details were in an earlier blog.. Chase's team went undefeated all week and made it to the Saturday noon championship game.. against a Northern California based team who had two losses during the week of pool play. Now we apparantly had it to easy as with 1 close game, 3 blowouts, and 4 mercy games, we were a bit underwhelmed at the big "show". Team Rawlins ended up taking a loss 2-9, and couldn't have been less had the coach made a pitching change at inning four as he did all week rather than go into the 5th and let the pitcher get 6 runs behind before making a change that was effective.. so after getting there 2nd place medals, and a picture, we were off for lunch at Mc Duffy's where one of our coaches Craig Grebeck (former MLB player) who knows Roger Clemens, had him meeting us there to meet our boys.. Roger Clemens son had been playing in the tournament as well for a Texas team, and I had taken a picture of Bonnie shaking his hand.. and than we heard later that he had gotten kicked out of a game.. heehee..geez it's just 16 yr old ballgames! some parents! But I wasn't all that impressed with him before nor after seeing him from where I was seated during our lunch.. his beautiful trophy wife had said hello to me as I passed them outside while walking to our car as they arrived, he only looked away..
Team Rawlins 16U
Chase and Jeremy (catcher)
Chase and his Dad Clayton
Clayton, Bonnie and Chase
A night in Phoenix meeting HS friends of Bonnie
Chase and his beautiful momma
geez, not a good hair day for me in the heat!
Chase standing with Roger Clemens at Mc Duffy's
Chase, Roger, and Jeremy ~ Texas Longhorn fans
Out for dinner at Texas Roadhouse for Solomons birthday
The group that went out for Solomons 17th birthday ~ Solomon is right side white shirt..
We travelers returned home Saturday night about 9:30pm and a shower felt so good and sleeping in your own bed. Sunday was a casual day of church, lunch with Greg and Shane and than not much of anything else except waiting for work to roll around on Monday morning on June 28th..
The end of the next week was the 4th of July weekend. We started out on Friday afternoon at 2pm for Madera to stop overnight at my youngest sister Stacy's family.. We had some quality "baby loving" time, conversation, and Shane took his two girl cousins to see the new Twilight movie at 9:30pm. The girls had been frantically watching the first two movies in this series on Friday to be ready to see number 3.. In the morning we all left for the 2.5 hour further north drive to Lisa's in Grass Valley. My sister Lisa and her husband Kelly have for many years now had a big bash on their "10 acre ranch" in the country. Usually 150 of their closest friends and family from both sides.. Last year they didn't do the party, and even if they had, we wouldn't have gone as I was not out of the hospital yet from the 1st back surgery.. This year they only invited 50 peeps, and so it always involves volleyball of the masses, swimming, basketball pickup games, horse shoes, boche ball.. and in the past softball when the crowd is larger.. (they have a full size baseball diamond in the back forty). I didn't take any pictures of my own..
On Saturday night, they had the dinner catered from a local family that makes the most awesome bbq ribs and bbq tri tip that you have to just stay away from the table or you'd never stop going back, they also had beans, potato salad, and a pasta salad along with rolls... m.m.m good.. they had great leftovers on Sunday night before going to fireworks show that is for sure, darn we left in the afternoon for home. We left on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 after lounging a few hours around the pool with the families. I drove the first couple of hours and than Shane took over we only stopped to eat at In-N-Out burger at the grapevine.. We arrived back in the LA area on the south side of the grapevine pass in time to see about 20,000 illegal fireworks being shot off across the basin no matter which freeway we were on.. at times it sounded like our tire was blown out in the sound bouncing between the two sound walls, and the 710 freeway was a haze of smoke just like fog. Landed in our driveway around 9:30pm so we made good time and managed to get home early enough that Monday the holiday was still ours to do something with.
So after 1400 mile quick round trip, I still got up on Monday early and ran some errands, had the car washed, and than went and worked out with the trainer Jeremiah at 2pm.. Right now I'm glad it's Friday night, after having been to a short 4day work week, working out 3 times with Jeremiah, walking many miles with Virginia at 5:45 am and one night with Greg and the numerous errands run in between.
Tuesday nights Brian plays on a slow pitch softball team with HS friends.. He returned to playing this year after returning from his work in Madera.. They were short players this night and he asked Shane to fill in. So I have one of them together and than the other picture is what is part of the team mystique that should you strike out, your next at bat has you wearing this banana suit.. it's quite a funny spectacle. Some night no one wears it and tonight it was quite a wardrobe accessory for the team.. This picture is Shane wearing it and it actually did not slow down his hitting streak!
Brian and Shane
Shane in the banana suit following a strike out previously ~ still got a hit and an RBI ~ that a boy!
A couple of hours ago, Ashley and I were "chatting" on FB and I said "lets skype, dad is sitting here also" and so Matt was at her house as well. So we chatted for awhile and than signed off.. She is very happy, and the two of them will be making a trip to CA via car leaving TX on Aug 9 and leaving here on Aug 16th for their homes in TX. She has a busy schedule while here so hoping we will get to have a day with them in that mix.
Shane just arrived home after a 11 hour ride along with the Santa Fe Springs Fire Department today. He has been explaining his day and we're having a few laughs.. He has a few weeks left in his makeup EMT summer session.. and than he will have about 3 weeks before the fall school semester will start. He will have to wait for the January academy class to come around, as the summer make up class clashed with the start this week of the July academy class he was counting on.
Well, there you have it.. catch up session right up to the current minute for us here.. good night
1 comment:
And then you had the River & then Minnesota for a week and a 1/2, wow what an awesome, busy summer you have, I'm a bit envious, lol! So glad you're able to make up for the horrible, painful summer last year.
Love ya,
Loree
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